Yahoo has admitted what everyone already knew — the company is up for sale. And to make sure it's taken seriously, Yahoo is bringing in outsiders to drum up interest. The company announced on Friday the formation of "a Strategic Review Committee of independent directors" to explore "strategic alternatives." Put more plainly, Yahoo has hired bankers and lawyers to field offers that can be presented to the company's board of directors.

Soon after Marissa Mayer became the C.E.O. of Yahoo, in 2012, she looked up a list of the most popular activities that people did with their phones. Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed at the time, generating so little revenue that the company didn’t even report the amount in financial filings. When Mayer read the list, though, she was buoyed. Besides habits like talking and texting, which were services that cell-phone carriers...

Yahoo had high hopes for Tumblr when it bought the blogging platform for $1.1 billion in 2013, but it hasn't lived up to its expectations. The troubled company has lowered its valuation to $760 million, down $230 million from its previous $990 million value (Yahoo only snapped up Tumblr for over a billion due to its liabilities). Marissa Mayer and her colleagues expected the startup to boost its userbase to a billion. While that did eventually happen over...

Yahoo! Games, the once-hopping online game hub best known for its simulacrum of classic board and card games, is shutting down. The news was buried amidst major changes for the company: As we reported Tuesday, Yahoo will lay off roughly 15 percent of the company, downsize across the board, and shutter many offerings, including its TV efforts.

A new lawsuit (PDF) filed against flailing tech giant Yahoo claims that company managers governing the "Media Org" were biased against men. It also claims that the company's Quarterly Performance Review (QPR) process favored female employees and that the company engaged in mass layoffs without proper warnings. Gregory Anderson was editorial director of Yahoo's Autos, Homes, Shopping, Small Business, and Travel sections until he was terminated in 2014.

You’re not getting fired this week — feel better now? That was the creepy message Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer had for employees at a companywide meeting earlier this month, drawing nervous chuckles from workers who fear for their jobs, sources told The Post.

The short answer is, no, of course, nothing can save Yahoo. A year from now things will certainly look very different in Sunnyvale. The longer answer is, there’s a good media company here, with a lot of great assets and a real audience. That audience is both blessing and curse, since, while all those eyeballs bring in a lot of money, the fact that they’re there hasn’t forced Yahoo to adapt to the new digital media environment. The lack of urgency shows...

Yahoo! Inc. is considering an outright sale of its business, marking what could hasten a significant shift in the company’s thinking as it faces pressure from activist shareholders. Just last month, Yahoo executives put forward a plan to spin off its main Internet business, the latest of several strategies they’ve proposed over the past year to deal with slowing revenue. Now, that idea may be abandoned in favor of a sale, people familiar with the matter said.

Yahoo is working on a plan to cut its workforce by at least 10 percent and it could start the process as early as this month, Business Insider reported, citing sources. "We are not confirming this rumor or commenting further", Sarah Meron, a spokeswoman for Yahoo told Reuters on Thursday in an e-mail.

Yahoo's disintegration as a venerable online media brand has continued with the shutdown of Yahoo Screen, according to a report from Variety today. The company's video platform and mobile app was supposed to be home to both original programming and high-profile shows from established networks.

An activist shareholder is calling for Yahoo to radically change its strategy, fire CEO Marissa Mayer and even revert to its old logo. Eric Jackson, managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, a New York-based hedge fund, has sent Yahoo's board a scathing review of the company's management. In a 99-slide presentation, Jackson detailed his plan to turn Yahoo around.

Yahoo and Marissa Mayer: An activist shareholder is calling for Yahoo to radically change its strategy, fire CEO Marissa Mayer and even revert to its old logo.

Yahoo Mail is not looking kindly on some users of ad-blocking software. A thread on the forums for the service Adblock Plus, first spotted by Digiday, suggested some Yahoo Mail users were being prevented from accessing their email unless they disabled their ad blockers, and a Yahoo spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the message is indeed part of a "test" for some users.

The first global NFL webcast seemed to go off without a hitch on Sunday morning, as Yahoo! and CBS put together a fine telecast of what turned out to be one of the best games of the NFL season. FTW watched the game, tested the strengths and weaknesses of the broadcast format and compiled this list of the pros and cons for the NFL’s grand Internet experiment.

The departures of a number of high-profile executives at Yahoo has accelerated in recent months, so much so that many inside the company are becoming worried about strategy and execution of key initiatives aimed at turning around its core business. While Silicon Valley is a place where talent moves regularly among the many tech companies, one source inside Yahoo called the situation “troubling”; another worried...

Yahoo is expected to unveil a new cross-platform messaging service at an event in New York City later today.

Today’s Season 6 finale of Community may have felt like a series finale, but it may not be over for the college comedy at its new home, Yahoo. I hear conversations continue between the Internet giant and Community producer Sony Pictures TV for more episodes. Neither side would comment, thought Yahoo left the door open with the following statement through a spokesperson...

During a conference call to report Yahoo's first quarter earnings on Tuesday, CEO Marissa Mayer talked about a new product the company is working on in search. She said that the product will be a mobile search/personal assistant product in the vein of Apple's Siri, Google Now, or Microsoft's Cortana. We've been speaking with a Yahoo source about this product, and have a few details to share about its development.

Samples tested by Environmental Investigation Agency contained mercury levels up to 47 times higher than recommended safe level.

When the great granddaddy of opinion journals, The New Republic, abruptly vanished in a sad, squalid burst of pixel dust and management theory last winter, establishment journalists rent their garments and gnashed their teeth in horror. “The promise of American life has been dealt a lamentable blow,” a group of former writers and editors associated with the magazine pronounced in a public statement. The New Republic, they said, formerly “a kind of public trust,”...